The Clearwater Festival Announces Final Line-Up for June 17-18, 2017

Tickets on sale now at  www.clearwaterfestival.org.

BEACON, NY(Pres Release) – Clearwater’s  Great Hudson River Revival (Clearwater Festival), the country’s oldest and largest music and environmental festival, brings together major musical acts and Clearwater’s own brand of green activism for a unique weekend every June. Clearwater Festival 2017, which takes place on June 17 and 18, on the banks of the Hudson River at beautiful Croton Point Park, Croton-On-Hudson, NY  announces its final line-up.  
 
Confirmed headliners include: Lake Street Dive, the reunion of  Cry Cry Cry (first performance in more than nineteen years), Los Lobos,  Arlo Guthrie. Richard Thompson, Joan Osborne singing a set of Bob Dylan’s songs; Josh Ritter, Alejandro Escovedo, Joe Purdy  and many more.   
 
Fist time performers include: British singer-songwriter Nick Lowe, Australian guitar virtuoso Tommy Emmanuel; innovative Montreal based folk-rock band  The Barr Brothers; singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Valerie June; modern day songster, minstrel and bluesman  Jerron  “Blind Boy” Paxton; the throat-singing, slide guitar playing one-man-band The Suitcase Junket; cellist, singer, and former member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops Leyla McCalla; husband and wife team  Larry Campbell and  Teresa Williams; brass band Lucky Chops, John Trudell’s Bad Dog with Joel Rafael.
 
Longtime Clearwater friends joining us for the weekend include Tom Paxton, Toshi Reagon & BIGLovely, Holly Near, Tom Chapin,  Guy Davis,  David Amram,  Josh White Jr.,  Joanne Shenandoah, The Kennedys, Martha Redbone's Roots Projects and  The Vanaver Caravan.

---

Founded by musician and activist Pete Seeger and his wife Toshi, this year’s Great Hudson River Revival promises to be a special celebration. In keeping the Seeger’s legacy alive, it has always been a goal for the Clearwater Festival to have a musically and culturally diverse line-up. “With all that is going on in the country this year, it has never been more important to come together to celebrate diversity,” said Steve Lurie, Clearwater Festival Producer.
 
As part of the Clearwater Festival’s mission to present artists from around the world, these acts will also be making their Clearwater debut - salsa band  Jimmy Bosch Y Su Sexteto del Otro Mundo;  A-WA   who are three Israeli sisters that combine Yemenite folk singing with electronic dance music; the great Puerto Rican plena and bomba group, Plena Libre. Indie Mambo band  Orkesta Mendoza; Cuban songstress  Daymé Arocena. 
 
There will be a number of tributes at this year’s festival including ones to Pete Seeger, Leonard Cohen, Woody Guthrie, Oscar Brand and Buckwheat Zydeco.  Joan Osborne will be singing a set of Bob Dylan’s music and Brother Joscephus & The Love Revolution will perform a special New Orleans’ arrangement of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s  Lonely  Hearts Club Band, which celebrates it 50th anniversary on June 2. 
 
New to the Clearwater Festival this year will be “Standing Rock on the Hudson,” a 90 minute program of ceremony, speaking and song featuring Native American performers and River activists.  They will join together to connect the issues surrounding the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and the damming of the Missouri River to the challenges that the Hudson River faces.  Featured artists include: long-time Shinnecock activist/singer Margo Thunderbird, multi-instrumentalist David Amram, Evan Pritchard (Mi’kmaq), Quiltman from John Trudell’s Bad Dog, Joan Henry (Cherokee/Apache/Arawak), Matoaka Little Eagle (Tewa, Apache, Chickahominy), Shannon Rothenberger Flynn, (Ojibwe/Bear Clan descent), Tim Trew (Water Protector), singer-songwriter Jay Mankita , John Cronin III (Founding Riverkeeper), Fidel Moreno (Huichol/ChiChimeca/Mexican-American), Etaoqua (Tunxis) and singer-songwriter Paul McMahon. 
 
The sloop Clearwater  will embark from the festival on a historic sail to Washington, D.C., just like Pete Seeger did in 1970, to bring a message that clean water is a right, not a privilege for all.  There will be a ceremony featuring performers and speakers to wish the Clearwater well on its journey.
 
Visit  www.clearwaterfestival.org    for a complete list of performers.
 
Tickets are available for purchase now at  www.ClearwaterFestival.org. Clearwater members receive a 20% discount off regularly priced advanced tickets. To become a Clearwater member, visitwww.clearwater.org or call Clearwater’s membership office at (845)265-8080 ext. 7119.